Module 10 Flashcards
What is the Front Side Bus?
The bus between the CPU and memory.
What does FSB stand for?
Front Side Bus
What happens if the memory is slow but the CPU is fast?
The CPU won’t receive enough instructions therefore being underutilized.
Tell me 3 things about GPU
- Graphical Processing Unit
- Can be integrated with the CPU
- More powerful GPU’s can be provided on a plug-in expansion card.
What are the two ways to make a network link>
- Wired Network
- Wireless Network
What does an RJ-45 cable look like?
What does NIC stand for?
Network Interface Card
What does a NIC card look like?
What does PCIe stand for?
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
Where on the motherboard would I install a NIC card?
PCIe slot.
How do most business support Wi-Fi?
Via a wireless access point.
How are most laptops, smartphones, and tablets able to wirelessly connect to the internet?
They have built-in Wi-Fi adapters.
What enables most home computing devices to access the internet without being cabled to the Internet router?
Wi-Fi radio networking
What’s another name for motherboard?
System Board
What are chipsets?
Built in processors
What does PCB stand for?
Printed Circuit Board
What is the motherboard?
A PCB with some built in processors, sockets, and slots for upgradable components, and wires to connect them together.
What determines the upgradability of the computer?
The motherboard.
What two things determine the compatibility of a component to the motherboard?
- Does it physically fit?
- Is the component too new for the motherboard’s chipset to be able to communicate with it?
What is an integrated circuit?
A silicon chip embedded on a ceramic plate.
Name the five Intel CPU Brands.
- Core
- Pentium
- Celeron
- Atom
- Xeon
What is Intel’s Core CPU most known for?
Intel’s flagship CPU series?
What is Intel’s Pentium CPU most known for?
Used to be Intel’s premium CPU. 32-bit
What is Intel’s Celeron CPU most known for?
Intel’s budget brand.
What is Intel’s Atom CPU most known for?
Smartphones and Tablets
What is Intel’s Xeon CPU most known for?
Server/Workstation market
Phased out AMD brands. There are 3.
- Phenom
- Sempron
- Turion
AMD Athlon.
AMD’s entry level processor.
What two brands make up AMD’s Zen microarchitecture?
- Ryzen/Threadripper and Ryzen Mobile.
- Epyc
Ryzen/Threadripper and Ryzen Mobile AMD processors.
High-end
Epyc AMD processors
Server-class
What does ARM stand for?
Advanced RISC Machine
What are based on the ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) microarchitectures?
Modern companies base their CPUs and chipsets for smartphones and tablets.
What does RISC stand for?
Reduced Instruction Set Computing.
What does CISC stand for?
Complex Instruction Set Computing.
How do RISC microarchitectures CPUs function?
They use simple instruction that process quickly.
How do CISC microarchitecture CPUs function?
They use more complicated instructions that process more slowly.
Name a company who’s microarchitecture is CISC with RISC enhancement?
Intel
What is ‘clock speed’?
The number of instructions a CPU can process in one second. Hertz (Hz) is the in which clock speed is measured. Earlier CPUs were measured in MHz modern are measured in GHz or better.
Which has faster processing speed, a dual-core 3GHz CPU or a single-core 4GHz CPU?
The single-core CPU would run faster, but the dual-core would deliver better performance.
What is the ‘core’ clock speed?
The speed at which the CPU runs internal processes and accesses cache.
What is the FRONT SIDE BUS?
The interface between the CPU and system memory. The speed of the front side bus is usually determined by the memory controller, which might be part of the motherboard chipset or part of the CPU.
What unit of measurement are bus speeds typically measured.
Older bus speeds were measured in MHz, more modern bus speeds are measured in GHz.
How does modern memory designs increase bandwidth?
By transferring data twice per clock cycle, also called Double Data Rates.
How does modern memory design transfer data from two memory modules simultaneously?
Dual-channel
What does SMP stand for?
Symmetric Multiprocessing
What is ‘symmetric multiprocessing’?
Using two physical CPUs simultaneously.
What does CMP stand for?
Chip Level Multiprocessing
What is ‘chip level multiprocessing’?
A dual-core CPU.
What four things does a ‘bus’ carry?
- Data
- Address Information
- Timing Signal
- Power
Tell me about ADDRESS INFORMATION.
Where the data is located in memory.
Tell me about TIMING SIGNAL.
As different components can work at different speeds, the system clock synchronizes the way they communicate over the bus.
What are the two main types of bus?
- System bus - also called local bus.
- Expansion Bus - also called the I/O bus.
What are two alternative names for the ‘system but’?
- Front Side Bus (FSB)
- Local Bus
What is another name for ‘expansion bus’?
I/O bus.
What does the system bus do?
It provides connections between the CPU and system memory.
What does the expansion bus do?
It provides connections between the CPU and add-on components.
Name three was an expansion bus can be present.
- Integrated onto the motherboard
- Installed as an expansion card
- Connected as a peripheral device
What does AGP stand for?
Accelerated Graphics Port
Give an example of a passive cooling device.
Heatsink
Why is it important to keep cable clutter to a minimum?
To keep the PC interior free from dust.
What is a heat spreader?
A flat tube with liquid inside. As the components heat the liquid, it moves to another part of the tube and is cooled down by a fan or other type of convection. The cooler liquid then passes back over the component, heats up again, and moves away, creating a constant cooling cycle.
What is an alternate name for booting?
Bootstrapping
How is sound processed in a PC?
Sound functions are often provided by the motherboard chipset.
What is the main advantage to using a CPU in 64-bit mode?
A 64-bit CPU has the ability to use more system memory than a 32-bit CPU.
What is typical speed for amid-range CPU to run at?
Around 2 MHz, if you overclock it. Most still run at 1MHz.
